| Siebel Financial Services eBusiness Application Integration Guide > Understanding Financial Services Integration Paradigms > Usage Models > Batch
 Batch processing typically is used for periodic uploads or downloads of large amounts of information into the Siebel database. A typical batch scenario includes: 
Uploading a batch of product catalog and item information into a Siebel Financial Services application from an external system or downloading a batch of all opportunities from Siebel Financial Services applications to another database.
	Downloading all the new contact and accounts for that day from the Siebel application to an external Customer Information File (CIF).
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